More than 60,000 African asylum seekers reside in Israel today, most having arrived in the past five years, according to the African Refugee Development Center in Israel, which advocates on their behalf. The vast majority have come from Eritrea and Sudan, crossing the border on foot from Egypt. None stay in Egypt then!


Other countries, he noted, which are better equipped than Israel to absorb the refugees should be recruited to help solve the crisis. "They have more room, and they have more resources," he said. "Israel has been taking a beating in the international press for how it treats the refugees, but never has there been any suggestion in these reports that maybe other countries should be lending a hand."

How many African refugees are taken in by Israel's neighbours?
Why constantly attack Israel Jim?